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Overview

The hardcover box set of C. S. Lewis's classic fantasy series The Chronicles of Narnia, with cover art by three-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator David Wiesner and the full black-and-white original interior art by Pauline Baynes.

Journeys into magical realms, battles between good and evil, talking creatures, and more, await readers of all ages in The Chronicles of Narnia.

This timeless box set includes all seven titles—The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe;The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; and The Last Battle—with interior black-and-white art by Pauline Baynes, the original illustrator.

About the Author

Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963) was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day. He was a Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Oxford University until 1954, when he was unanimously elected to the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University, a position he held until his retirement. He wrote more than thirty books, allowing him to reach a vast audience, and his works continue to attract thousands of new readers every year. His most distinguished and popular accomplishments include Out of the Silent Planet, The Great Divorce, The Screwtape Letters, and the universally acknowledged classics The Chronicles of Narnia. To date, the Narnia books have sold over 100 million copies and have been transformed into three major motion pictures.

Pauline Baynes has produced hundreds of wonderful illustrations for the seven books in The Chronicles of Narnia. In 1968 she was awarded the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal for her outstanding contribution to children's literature.

Date of Birth:

November 29, 1898

Date of Death:

November 22, 1963

Place of Birth:

Belfast, Nothern Ireland

Place of Death:

Headington, England

Education:

Oxford University 1917-1923; Elected fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1925

Read an Excerpt

The Magician's Nephew

Chapter OneThe Wrong Door

This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. It is a very important story because it shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the land of Narnia first began.

In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road. In those days, if you were a boy you had to wear a stiff Eton collar every day, and schools were usually nastier than now. But meals were nicer; and as for sweets, I won't tell you how cheap and good they were, because it would only make your mouth water in vain. And in those days there lived in London a girl called Polly Plummer.

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

Chapter OneLucy Looks Into the Wardrobe

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs. Macready and three servants. (Their names were Ivy, Margaret and Betty, but they do not come into the story much.) He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and they liked him...

The Horse and His Boy

Chapter OneHowShasta Set Out On His Travels

This is the story of an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him.

In those days, far south in Calormen on a little creek of the sea, there lived a poor fisherman called Arsheesh, and with him there lived a boy who called him Father. The boy's name was Shasta. On most days Arsheesh went out in his boat to fish in the morning, and in the afternoon he harnessed his donkey to a cart and loaded the cart with fish and went a mile or so southward to the village to sell it. If it had sold well he would come home in a moderately...

Prince Caspian

Chapter OneThe Island

Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe how they had a remarkable adventure. They had opened the door of a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a quite different world from ours, and in that different world they had become Kings and Queens in a country called Narnia. While they were in Narnia they seemed to reign for years and years; but when they came back through the door and found themselves in England again, it all seemed to have taken no time at all. At any rate, no one noticed that they had ever been away, and they never told anyone except one very wise grown-up.

That had all happened a year ago, and now all...

The Voyage of The Dawn Treader

Chapter OneThe Picture in the Bedroom

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it. His parents called him Eustace Clarence and masters called him Scrubb. I can't tell you how his friends spoke to him, for he had none. He didn't call his Father and Mother "Father" and "Mother," but Harold and Alberta. They were very up-to-date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on beds and the windows were always open.

Eustace Clarence liked animals, especially beetles, if they were dead and pinned on a card. He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools.

The Silver Chair

Chapter OneBehind The Gym

It was a dull autumn day and Jill Pole was crying behind the gym.

She was crying because they had been bullying her. This is not going to be a school story, so I shall say as little as possible about Jill's school, which is not a pleasant subject. It was "Coeducational," a school for both boys and girls, what used to be called a "mixed" school; some said it was not nearly so mixed as the minds of the people who ran it. These people had the idea that boys and girls should be allowed to do what they liked. And unfortunately what ten or fifteen of the biggest boys and girls liked best was bullying the others. All sorts of things, horrid things, went on which at an ordinary school would have been found out and stopped in half...

The Last Battle

Chapter OneBy Caldron Pool

In the last days of Narnia, far up to the west beyond Lantern Waste and close beside the great waterfall, there lived an Ape. He was so old that no one could remember when he had first come to live in those parts, and he was the cleverest, ugliest, most wrinkled Ape you can imagine. He had a little house, built of wood and thatched with leaves, up in the fork of a great tree, and his name was Shift. There were very few Talking Beasts or Men or Dwarfs, or people of any sort, in that part of the wood, but Shift had one friend and neighbor who was a donkey called Puzzle. At least they both said they were friends, but from the way things went on you might have thought Puzzle was more like Shift's servant than his friend. He did...

Editorial Reviews

With amazing characters and abundant magic, this series is impossible to forget.

Brightly

With amazing characters and abundant magic, this series is impossible to forget.

Brightly.com

Narnia fans, rejoice! Celebrate the magical Chronicles of Narnia series with this gorgeous boxed set. Featuring the original illustrations by award-winning illustrator Pauline Baynes and glorious cover illustrations, this incredible set is a must-have for anyone who wants to step into the unforgettable world of Narnia time and time again.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

The Chronicles of Narnia Box Set: 7 Books in 1 Box Set 4.5 out of 5based on
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Fossil

More than 1 year ago

Nothing wrong with the content, it's classic, but the book materials are ultra low end for a hard back: light hardback cover, super-thin paper (basically transparent), spine has no reinforced cloth strip, spine glued with no stitching. Dust cover okay. Don't bother buying the hardback series from this publisher. It costs three times as much as the paperback edition and I can't see it standing up to much more wear, which these books will get no doubt.

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

The Chronicles of Narnia are among the best books I have ever read and I have read hundreds of books. They are well-written, engaging, entertaining, and they have good morals. I even committed my life to God because of The Last Battle. Any book that can do that has to be crazy indpriring. They are perfect for people of any age, even if you are not a Christian. Reading them to your own kids or a class is a very good use for them. The movies are great too. YOur life is not complete if you have not read these books.

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

This is actually the first series I had actually read I started the Magicians Nephew and I completely loved it. I kept reading onto The Last Battle, skipping The Silver Chair because it was not up to my expectations. Every single book I read in this series I adored, I actually read the whole thing three times in one year. My favorite was The Horse's Boy. I first read the whole series when I was about 6 in one month, that's how much I liked them. The cover art is different from the one I read, don't like this much. And to you who said that the movie was way more interesting you're WRONG! The characters in the movie looked like the way I imagined them, which was really good. I was a six year old child when I read them which means that the series was absorbing enough to control a six year old's attention span. Well anyways I reccommend these books to anyone who likes good fantasy genre books. :)

Guest

More than 1 year ago

I am 60 years old and reading this collection for the first time. 'I have not seen the films.' It is brilliantly written, edifying, engaging, compelling. A wonderful experience. I hate when each story ends! I am only sorry that this is the first time I'm reading it and not the 21st! I love it so much I am buying it for my 7 year old great nephew. Read and enjoy.

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More than 1 year ago

I had these books as a boy and loved them. I read through them half a dozen times in my youth. I had always thought of them as books only for children, but I started the series again a short time ago. It is an incredible story for anyone. There are strong Christian undertones all throughout the series, though it is not strictly a Christian story and will not offend anyone. There is a great message of kindness, plus it is simply a very entertaining story for all ages. I highly recommend this series for everyone.

kiri_wren on LibraryThing

11 months ago

Classic, beautiful stories that are great partially for their simplicity and brevity--the lack of overbearing descriptions lets the reader's imagination go. Completely lovable characters and great connections between the plots of the individual books.

bookishbunny on LibraryThing

More than 1 year ago

Every few years I will revisit these books and see what more I can learn from them. They are filled with love and faith and beauty - great stuff.

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this book series is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I started reading these books when I was in 3rd grade, and at least once a year find myself drawn back to them to continually re-read them. Every book was phenomenal, however I feel that The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, The Voyage, and The Last Battle were the best.

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ASU_Aslan

More than 1 year ago

I highly recommend this wonderful set of adventure stories by C.S. Lewis.
These hardcover books are a great addition to any library. They are great stories for children to read, parents to read to their kids, and for adults to re-read and remember adventures from years-gone-by.
Now that the stories are being released as major-motion pictures, this
boxed-set is a great purchase.
A beautiful set with lovely illustrations.

Anonymous

More than 1 year ago

We purchased this set of books for a woman who was graduating with a PHD.
She happened to mention that she had always wanted this set of books for her collection. The hardbound edition will last many years, through children and grandchildren. The stories are full of good and moral lessons. They appeal to young and old alike. I read through my paperback set every few years! C. S. Lewis does a great job of bringing Narnia to life for the reader and the characters will become part of your mind and heart for a lifetime. The books are a nice blend of adventure with just the right amount of humor. A fabulous read aloud set for bedtime reading or classroom reading.